Shihua Zhang was born on May, 1980 in Shandong Province, China. Now he is an Associate Professor Professor of the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, at CAS. His interests are within Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Network Science, particularly in Cancer Genomics and Network Biology. He has published over 40 technical papers in the refereed journals and conference proceedings such as in Bioinformatics (including two ISMB papers), PLoS Computational Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, Proteomics, Plos ONE, BMC Systems Biology, BMC Bioinformatics, Physical Review E.

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." —— Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"In science, the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances." —— Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." —— Betrand Russell

"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.." ——John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." —— Albert Einstein (1879-1955)